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TOTICH IS HEREBY GIVEN that An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING YOTING MEMBERS of the HONG KONG JOCKET CLUB will be held at the CLUB HOUSE, BAIT VALLET, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY the 47 DAY of JUNE, 1980, immediately after the MEETING of HALF YEARLY VOTING MEMBERS, for the purpose of considering, and if thought Bt. passing the following resolution -
"That the present unincorporated Members Club known as the HONG KONG JOCKET CLUB be incorporated and registered in Hong Kong under the Hong Kong Companies Or.
limited dinances as a Company by guarantee and that the name of anch Company shall be the Hone Koxe JOCKEY CLUB and that the draft Memorandum and Articles of Aaroin. tion contained in the printed docn- ment submitted to the Meeting sad of identification for the purpose subscribed by the Chairman thereof and adopted as the and Articles of AoEIS-
tion of the Club at incorpomted and that the same he enbacribed by the existing Stewards of the Hong Kong JOCKKY CLUB and registered as such and that the Company be registero without the addition of the word Limited to its name as being an Association which intends to apply its ia promoting ita objecta and payment of any prohibits
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Members and that the
Stewards of the Hoxe KONG JOCKET CLUB do forthwith after the incorporation and registration of the Baid Company transfer and assign all the property effects beneft and liabilities of the present anincorporat ed HoxaTOND JOCKEY CLUB to the Company so incorporated and re- gistered."
And NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that A Farther EXTRAOR DINARY GENERAL MEETING of th Hoxe Koro JOCKEY CLUB will be held at the Same Place on MONDAY, the 23an DAY of JUNE, 1930, at 5.30 O'clock in the AFTERNOON, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Proceedings of the
abore mentioned Meeting and of confirming, if thenght ft, the above mentioned resolution.
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Copies of the proposed Memorandum and Articles of Association are apen the Inspection of Members and can he
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seal Business Hours at asen during the Office of the Secretary, Ma. C. B.
INSTEAD BROWN,
Alexandra Buildings, Hong- DAYI kong and at the Office of Mrsasa. DES VOEUX ROAD DEACONS, 1,
the Hopz Kong. Club's GENTHAL Bolicitors, and at the CLUB HOUSE, HAPPY VALLEY, Hong Kong,
Dated the 21st day of May, 1930.
By Order of the STEWARDS. C: B. BROWN,
Pocretary.
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ART TREASURES
IN PEPING.
PALACE COLLECTION
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LONDON BRUSSELS SERVICE OPENED.
STORY OF THEFT BY FENG PROVED FALSE,
[UNITED PRESS.]
The vast treasures of Chinese art objects in the Palace museums in Peping are entirely intact, and reports widely published that Mar- shal Feng Yu Hsiang carried away some of the most valuable pieces are false, according to the findings of a commission of Chiness and foreign experts who have been going over the lists of Palace museum posses pions.
Competenta Chinese connoissenrs served on the commission, and Dr. J.C. Ferguson, American student
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Messrs. John Little & Co., Ltd., DESCRIPTION OF FLIGHT TO Singapore, have received news by cable of the death in London of BRUSSELS.
Mr. Robert Scoular, chairman and managing director of the Company. England has faded away into the Mr. Scoular came out Ent to John soft darkness.
Little & Co. many years ago, and Little towns looking like rows of for some years was managing-direc
Brow fairy lanterns, gradually ter in Singapore. In 1917 he took smaller, until, from the big Fokker his place on the London Board of acroplane--the first machine to fly | Directors.. from England on a regular night air mail service-nothing can be seen but the fitful reflection of very pale moon on the corrugations of an absurdly small English Chan- nei.
While leprosy is believed by many scientists to be a non contagious disease, certain P.I. Health Service officers are reported as entertaining the opinion that the disease is con tagious and that it is transmitted from one person to another by bed- Never before has any organisa-buga. The new theory may not be founded on a scientific fact at all,
of Chinese language and art, acted tion run a regular air service dur
This machine, which roars on- wards with its three 230 horse- powered engines droning away cessantly, is carrying mails which were posted in London last night for Brussels.
as adviser. The commission founding the night time between London nothing of importanice missing from the lists. which have been kept and the Continent. fairly completely, and pre-date the departure of Marshal Feng from Peping is 1920, when the alleged looting is said to have taken place. The story, first printed in Chinese newspapers, and last appearing in English and Americar papers, de- scribed how Marshal Feng's sub- ordinates had come at night to the entrance of the Forbidden City, where the museum treasures are ..HAVE and thus the icin
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camels had been loaded heavily, and had gone out toward Mongolia.
Eyewitnesses were quoted who
had seen the camels loading objects carried from the museum enclosures.
In a few hours' time- before, even, our pilot has finished his breakinst-those letters will be de- livered in Brussels, eight hours after being posted.
Ships That Pass.
We are over the dreary yet rather" beautiful stretch of water of the Channel now.
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Foreign correspondents attempted to verify this story, and one for eigner was found who said he had
Here and there a light shinés out, also secti the mysterious camel train, and that the museums had suddenly to disappear before the been looted. Although the story eye has traced its course, and ocea had been re-published at intervalssionally a faint glow can be picked ever since 1928, Marshal Feng and ip from the water, where some his American-educated assistants cross-Channel steamer ploughs its have never bothered to contradict way from England to France.
The aeroplane, which to those on it. So far as is known, Marshal Feng has never commented upon board seems to be floating majestic the story at all, and foreign correally and serenely along, is spondents hesitated to ask bim out reality, hurtling through the air at right if it wore true.
well over 100 miles an hour. » False Esports.
Calais, dimly lighted and looking passes It has therefore been generally small and insignificant, believed that Marshal Feng had underneath, and there follows an panorama moonlit carried off some of the most valu amazing able jades, porcelains, lacquers, fields, all so square and straight, Chinese paintings and embroideries all so much the same in size, that you would say they had been cut from the museum, with the inten-
Irom the land by some huge tion of selling them to support his armies. The investigations of the machine.
Then, far away, there is another museum commission indicate that this belief has been entirely unjustiflashing lamp, and our pilot gives a
little shout, fied.
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but it certainly will prove detri mental to the bed-bug.
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Mr. Jay Gould, the American multi-millionaire, and Mrs. Gould their two daughters, and rived in Singapore recently for Java by the Nieuw Hollong. They will visit Bali and later on will proceed to Hong Kong, and travel through China and Japan before returning to the United States, Their original plan was to proceed to Signs and Indo-Ching from Singapore.
A committee of ten had a hard time in selecting the three winners of a beauty contest at Bangkok. instance on the first prize, winner When they had decided in the first the lady in question was found to have returned home. Ultimately Nangsão Yan Yong, & daughter of Phra Subhanit, was awarded the first prize of Tes. 200. She declined to accept the money and very gen erously requested that it be devoted. to charity. The second winner was a married lady; and the third, Nanguno Sanguan Sri. The last named also gave up her prize to the cause of charity.
Another Perang Chinese lady will shortly be leaving for England to She is Miss Lim
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Perfect Night.
to disbelieve them, the palace Brussels is in sight, and with a treasures taken over from the Man-wide sweep of the machine's wings, chus when they ahdicated have which sends the moonlit earth hardly been touched during the hurtling up to us, we rush down to. Frequent sudden and unexpected the aerodrome, lighted with huge changes of government in Peping, electric lamps. The museum still retains its most precious pieces.
A large sum of money has been spent during the past few weeks in renovating the palace museums, of which there is a whole series, and in bringing out some of the in- teresting pieces hitherto kept in storage. The palace treasures are so abundant that there is not room, even in the dozens of display rooms, to show them at once.
Searchlights shine on the machine from when it reaches the ground to when it comes to a standstill on the concrête runway-less than two hours after the start.
Postal sortera dash up to the machine, open the doors of the fuse lage, and take away the bags of mail,
It has been a perfect night for the flight, and the Belgian Air Line officials at Brussels are enthusiastic over the success of their new postal service.
The Belgian Air Lines contem plate starting an all-night passen- service between London and Belgium next year.
The most interesting of the new collections on view is that of the favourite curios of the Emperor Chien-lung." This Emperor, third of the Manchu rulers, was a distin- guished patron of Chinese art, ander established imperial factories mak- ing almost every kind of Chinese There are art and handicrafts. several hundred pieces in this little covering collection,
porcelains, bronzes, lacquere, ivories and jades.
INSURGENTS ON PEIHO.
HORRIBLE MUTILATIONS OF BODIES.
Dairon, May 19-Capt. Nakai, in charge of the Military Trans portation Branch, Taku, touched at Dairen on the morning of the 17th on his way to Ujina, Japan,
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Beng Tek, sister of Mrs. Oon, the lady barrister of Penang, and also of Mr. Lim Khye Seng, barrister- at-law. Miss Lim Beng Tek has had a distinguished career at St. George's Girls School, Penang, and has already passed her matricula- tion, examination. Mies Lim will be accompanied by her brother, Mr. Khye Seng, who is going on a holiday. By the same steamer there will also be leaving Mr. Lim Khye So, a younger brother, who is going to study motor engineering.
According to recently published figures, Japan's share in the import of cotton goods into the Nether- lands East Indies, as compared with the imports from Heliand and Eng- land, shows a further increase in 1929 of £650,000. Whereas Japan's share amounted to 24.6 per cent. in 1928, in 1929 the record figure of 20.5 per cent. has been attained, which considerably surpasses the British and Dutch figures. Eng- land's share shows a decline as re- gards the quantity as well as the percentage. Dutch imports of cotton goods into the East Indies were a shade higher, the percentage rising from 25.4 per cent. to 25 per cent.
A Female Domestic Service Ordi- nance, about to be introduced in the B.N.B. Legislative Council, is, drafted on the lines of the Hong Kong Ordinance regulating forms Its of female domestic service.. object is to repress the engagement ef and to regulate the employment of mai trai and to repress the engagement and employment of girls under ten years of age as domestic servants. It negatives the idea that rights of property in & female child can be conferred by a third person by payment to a parent or guardian. It provides for re gistration, inspection and control of mui tsai and for payment of wages to every mai teal over ten years of
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Symphony Orchestra. 7.03.-The Student Prince,
Guards.
Remarking on the insurgente activity on the Paiho on the 12th, Capt Nakai remarked that, con- trary to the reports of their annihi lation, they were still-lying-low-7.17 pm South Sea Islands (Talk-9 p.m.Weather report.
in hands of a hundred or two in the surrounding country, while a de- tachment of Government troops at Heinho are working to suppress them. The rumour of those insur
gents being in league with a local motley force is discredited. Out of 50 insurgente captured, about a half were killed on the spot.
The proverbial Chinese callous ness, continued the Captain, found further evidences in the horrible 8
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Queen's Hall Light Orchestra. 8.40 0.70, Chauve Souris, Russian 10.25p. Shenandoah
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out of their sockets. A few heads 8.17 were found cut off the trunks, Six secret agents of the Government troops who had been captured by the nutrients had set and do a the insurgents had been buried alive. number of farm houses, kidnapping over 20 people, according to rum ours-Mancheria Daily News.
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